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The Law & Society Association’s Dissertation Prize is awarded annually for the dissertation that best represents outstanding work in law and society. The 2018 winner is Amanda Hughett, a postdoctoral fellow at SUNY-Buffalo’s Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, for “Silencing the Cell Block: The Making of Modern Prison Policy in North Carolina and the Nation.” Hughett received her PhD in History from Duke in 2017. read more about Amanda Hughett wins the Law & Society Association’s Dissertation Prize »

The James Willard Hurst Prize is awarded annually for the best work in sociolegal history - broadly defined - published in the previous year. The 2018 winner of the Hurst Prize is Professor Farhad Bishara, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia, for A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press 2017). Bishara received his PhD in History from Duke in 2012.  read more about Fahad Bisara wins the James Willard Hurst Prize »

The following students are this year's recipients of the Anne Frior Scott Award.  This award is given to help undergraduate and graduate students engaged in research in women's history. Eladio Bobadilla History - 5th Year Advisor: MacLean One People Without Borders: The Lost Roots of the Immigrants' Rights Movement, 1954-1994 Aaron Colston History - 4th Year Advisor: Deutsch Read the Word, Change the World: The Politics of Literacy in the US and Brazil, 1945-1970 Bryce Gessell Philosophy - 4th Year Advisor: Janiak… read more about 2018 Anne Firor Scott Award Winners »

Edward J. Balleisen, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of History and Public Policy, received two scholarly recognitions at the 2018 annual meeting Business History Conference (BHC), held in Baltimore. Balleisen’s Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff (Princeton University Press, 2017), received the Ralph Gomory Book Prize, awarded annually to a volume that demonstrates “the effects of business enterprises on the economic conditions of the countries in which they operate.” The prize… read more about Ed Balleisen wins awards at the Business History Conference »

In a blog post published by AHA Today, entitled “Research-Oriented: Translating a History PhD into a Successful Career at a Think Tank,” Ashton Merck offers insights from a panel she attended at the 2018 American Historical Association Annual Meeting.  In addition to lessons learned about the prospects of historians working at think tanks, the piece offers a broader reflection on the state of career diversity initiatives for doctoral students, and the similarities and differences between the academic and non-… read more about Ashton Merck writes on career diversity for AHA Today  »

This article deals with the surprising unanimous 2012 decision to uphold racial quotas in Brazil's public universities. It argues that "the decision’s unanimity came from a constellation of metaphors and constitutional philosophies. These metaphors and philosophies, at times in tension, coalesced to form a coherent defense of protected identity classes and the state’s duty to protect them." Each vote relied on theories of the "right to difference" and drew heavily on gender theory and gender affirmative action case law,… read more about Travis Knoll writes article on the Braziliam Supreme Court »

PhD Candidate Gray F. Kidd has been featured in a video produced by The Graduate School on collaborative, interdisciplinary research. A 2016-2017 field leader for the Bass Connections team The Cost of Opportunity: Higher Education and Social Mobility in the Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Kidd reflects on how working with Duke undergraduates and faculty enabled his dissertation project to achieve new levels of clarity. The video is available at https://gradschool.duke.edu/about/news/video-how-bass-connections-helped-my-… read more about Kidd Featured in Video on Dissertation Research, Duke Bass Connections  »

Duke Magazine recently featured Ashley Rose Young's work with the American Food History Project at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. The article, "Ph.Ds are Defining Success in a New Way," can be found here. Young interned with the American Food History Project this summer with the support of the Versatile Humanists at Duke Internship Program. In that position, she began co-curating the refresh of the exhibition, FOOD: Transforming the American Table, 1950-2015. Young also… read more about Ashley Rose Young Joins Smithsonian as Historian of American Food History Project »

James Nealy, Thomas Prendergast, and Bill Sharman, all PhD candidates in modern European history, have received competetive fellowships to conduct dissertation research abroad during the 2017-2018 academic year. James is the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship. In 2018, he will spend nine months in the Russian Federation conducting research for his dissertation project. His work focuses on the social and intellectual history of the… read more about PhD Candidates in Modern European History Receive Competitive Dissertation Research Fellowships »